2 men sought in SW Houston game room killing

Published 8:32 am, Thursday, September 11, 2014

Police are seeking two more men in the March 27 deadly robbery at the Lucky Star Game Room at 10950 Bissonnet. Anyone with information is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

Police are seeking two more men in the March 27 deadly robbery at the Lucky Star Game Room at 10950 Bissonnet. Anyone with information is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

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Police are seeking two more men in the March 27 deadly robbery at the Lucky Star Game Room at 10950 Bissonnet. Anyone with information is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

Police are seeking two more men in the March 27 deadly robbery at the Lucky Star Game Room at 10950 Bissonnet. Anyone with information is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.

Photo: HPD

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Police are searching for two men considered "persons of interest" wanted for questioning in a robbery and shooting earlier this year at a game room in southwest Houston that left a security guard dead.

The incident happened about 12:30 p.m. March 27 at the Lucky Star Game Room at 10950 Bissonnet, according to the Houston Police Department.

Police said five Hispanic suspects, three men and two women, walked into the game room and began playing electronic slot machines. Suddenly, one of the men attacked the security guard, 53-year-old Rueben Portillo.

As the two struggled for Portillo's gun, another of the men joined the fight, also attacking Portillo. During the fight, police said, the gun went off and Portillo was critically wounded.

The men then robbed the people inside the game room before all the suspects left, some speeding away in a silver, two-door Honda Accord and others in a red Nissan Sentra with tinted windows and a rear spoiler.

Police said Portillo was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital, where he died the following day.

Two of the suspects, 21-year-old Luis M. Rivas and 48-year-old Maria Veronica Valle, were arrested in April and charged with capital murder in the case.

Police said investigators are trying to identify two men seen in surveillance photographs. The men have not been charged in the case, but investigators would like to speak to them regarding the incident.

Anyone with information about the identities of the men or their whereabouts is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.